Noirceur de l’âme, lumière de la Une by Myriam Boucharenc

“…It seems that it is the intensive exploitation of historical, anthropological and rhetorical affinities between the « fait divers» and the « réclame», which has contributed to making Détective a fundamentally advertising weekly magazine.…”
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The argumentation in Galatians by M. Hietanen

“… Many exegetes set out to analyse not only rhetorical features in Galatians but also other features relating to Paul’s argumentation. …”
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The effect of Mythological Allusion on the Expression of Mystical Experiences (Based on the Conference of the Birds of Attar) by Tamanna Golbabaei, Mohammad Gholamrezaei, Ahmad Khatami, Roghiyeh Sadraie

“…In the Conference of the Birds, Attar Neishaburi has integrated myth and allusion creatively by deepening simile of beautifully created images with allusion rhetorical industry. In this study, while introducing this combined industry - the mythological allusion - we will show how Attar used the mystical experiences of this industry and how he linked the myth and mysticism. …”
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Stylistic analysis of prose of Qajar period newspapers by Hasan Zolfaghari, Effat Hasani Kochaki

“…In this research, an attempt has been made to examine the stylistic features of these newspapers in five related phonetic, lexical, syntactic, rhetorical and ideological layers. For this review, we selected 50% of the text of an issue from each newspaper. …”
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Using counterfactuals to display facts – the case of satirical humor by Maslo Adi

“…Interestingly enough, counterfactuals oppose the actual state of affairs; rhetorically however, they show potential to reveal the truth. …”
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The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code by Sylwia Wojtczak, Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka

“…It is accepted that language as a system is inherently metaphorical, and that metaphorical images are not just rhetorical devices which help make language more interesting and poetic, but rather constitute mechanisms of cognition, thanks to which human beings can make sense of the world and then refer to it in an efficient way. …”
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De la retórica a la ficción by Leonardo Funes

“…The conventional acceptance of textual citation words pronounced by historical characters was included in the "historiographical" pact (the public accepts the poetical or rhetorical license as an expression of the most profound dimension of historical truth).However, when Alphonsine and Post-Alphonsine chroniclers began to incorporate dialogues in direct speech, this convention was a challenge for the claim to truth made by chronicle narratives.This article aims to trace the evolution of the use of direct speech from Alphonsine historiography to the historiography of John II of Castile, in order to evaluate its impact on the historical and fictional narrative forms.…”
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Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“… Since the eighteenth century the history of the Jesuit missionary endeavours in South America, especially their forced closure in 1760s, has been used rhetorically by writers in several genres, providing them with historical evidence to support a variety of latter-day causes. …”
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Regards sur un paysage anglais : « Seascape » de W.H. Auden à Benjamin Britten by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…In keeping with this inter-semiotic approach, the main structural and rhetorical elements of the poem will be discussed, and more particularly the stylistic devices that the musical work itself seems to echo through a combination of rhythmical, melodic and harmonic patterns which all serve to enhance the suggestive power of the text. …”
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Family, failure and fatigue in the field by Henni Alava, Megan Robertson

“…In resisting the coerciveness of dominant academic rhetorical codes, the paper calls for researchers to be more transparent about the devastating effects of patriarchy and neoliberal academia on their personal and professional lives. …”
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Interessante Zeichen für Sprache by Rüdiger Zymner

“…In the case of lyrics the mediality of language is indicated above all by attractors of different types, in particular by infractions or interferences on the linguistic level or on that of the information of the lingustic signs (for example meter, rhyme, graphic or phonetic cohesions, rhetorical figures and tropes), which dispose of the potential to generate in the reader a sensual participation or experience.…”
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Scandal in scientific reform: the breaking and remaking of science by Bart Penders

“…It delves into the pivotal role of scandal in shaping and sustaining this movement, both rhetorically and politically and portrays scandals as powerful catalysts for change, driving formal requirements for rigor and transparency and giving rise to influential voices like the Center for Open Science. …”
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The sequoia files : L’arbre merveilleux by François Brunet

“…Centering on the sequoia as a challenge to representation, this literature tends to describe the logic of exploration in purely rhetorical terms, and thus to translate the otherness of the frontier into a space of language play, which seems typical of the Victorian era.…”
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Sémiotique de l’enterrement prématuré : le féminisme à l’ère du postféminisme by Mary Hawkesworth

“…Treating the texts of feminism’s death as forms of meaning-making ripe for semiotic analysis, the paper explores the rhetorical mechanisms by which feminism’s death is produced and the means by which alternative representations of the corpse of feminism are linked to particular assumptions about the nature of feminism. …”
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Ulysse à la dérive : de déviations en faux-fuyants, un itinéraire élisabéthain by Charlotte Coffin

“…This article offers a survey of a variety of texts and genres, in order to show how both allegorical interpretations and rhetorical exploitations of the myth tend to erase ambivalence, whereas Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida fully explores its suggestions of  the dangerous power of eloquence.…”
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The Strategy of Lexical Specialization Explicitation in Quran Translation: A Study on Majāz Mursal by Mahmud Yunus by Nasimah Abdullah, Saifulah Samsudin

“…This study's primary focus is on using the rhetorical device majāz mursal (synecdoche) exclusively. …”
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Justification for Interference? The Role of the Monroe Doctrine in the Stigmatization and Legitimation of Intervention in the US Foreign Policy in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by I. A. Istomin

“…In this regard, it is more appropriate to consider it as a rhetorical asset rather than a strict guiding principle. …”
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Embodied sharpness: exploring the slicing gesture in political talk shows by Silva H. Ladewig

“…By contributing to the understanding of recurrent gestures as multimodal resources in political discourse, the paper sheds light on the interplay between embodied communication and rhetorical style.…”
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Préfigurations du lecteur dans la presse en ligne by Alexandra Saemmer

“…The author draws on the analytical tools of cultural studies and political economy to establish the methodological foundation for a semiotic-rhetorical investigation of media text. The core material for the study is a corpus of articles published on liberation.fr and lemonde.fr in 2014 about the cancellation of Dieudonné’s stand-up comedy show and the disclosure of President François Hollande and Julie Gayet’s secret relationship. …”
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Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: Metaphor and Values as Captivating Strategies to Celebrate a Presidency by Mª Pilar Guitart Escudero

“… Barack Obama's rhetorical style is broadly acknowledged to be one of the most outstanding examples of communication strategy in recent political oratory. …”
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